Promethean Power
OVERVIEW
The idea behind Promethean Power came from Matthew Orosz, an MIT graduate student who has worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in the African nation of Lesotho. Orosz wanted to provide electric power, refrigeration, and hot water to people without electricity. He and other MIT colleagues designed a set of mirrors that focus sunlight onto tubes filled with coolant. The hot coolant turns to pressurized vapor, which turns a turbine to make electricity. The leftover heat can be used to warm a tank of water and to run a refrigerator or an air conditioner, using a gas-absorbtion process that chills liquid ammonia by first heating it.
CONTACT INFORMATION
- Web site: http://www.solarturbinegroup.org
- Contact: Sam White, Director, Business Development; email address: sam@solarturbinegroup.org
